shipwreck

n. 海难；遇难船

vt. 使失事；使毁灭；使失败

中文词源

shipwreck 船舶失事，海难，沉船

ship,船，wreck,破坏，毁坏。

shipwreck (n.): mid-15c., from ship (n.) + wreck (n.). Earlier it meant "things cast up from a shipwreck" (c. 1100). The earlier word for "shipwreck" in the modern sense was Middle English schipbreke, "'ship-break,'" from a North Sea Germanic word; compare West Frisian skipbrek, Middle Dutch schipbroke, German Schiffbruch, Old English scipgebroc. Old English scipbryce meant "right to claim goods from a wrecked ship."
shipwreck (v.): 1580s, "cause to wreck;" c. 1600, "to suffer shipwreck," from shipwreck (n.). Related: Shipwrecked.

1. He was drowned in a shipwreck off the coast of Spain.: 他在西班牙海岸附近的一次海难中溺水身亡。

2. They narrowly escaped shipwreck in a storm in the North Sea.: 他们在北海遇到风暴，船险些失事。

3. They offered a thanksgiving to God for their escape from the shipwreck.: 他们因从海难中得以生还向上帝作了感恩祈祷.